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[maestro]

On the CBS13 news at noon today I saw a segment about this. A regulator at the Placer County Water Agency said that if the Bureau of Reclamation continues to release water from the lake at this rate, by September we could run out of water. 

 

http://sacramento.cb...eases-continue/

 

 

 

A message just arrived from Reclamation USBR --    the releases from Folsom Reservoir are being increased even more.    This is about sending water to Socal.

A reasonable release rate given this drought is 500 cfs, not 2,500 cubic feet per second.

 

 

 

 

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Please see the email below for upcoming change release.

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Field, Randi <rfield@usbr.gov>
Date: Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:53 AM
Subject: Nimbus Dam - Change Order

Project: Nimbus Dam

 

Please make the following release changes to the American River:

 

Date            Time         From (cfs)          To (cfs)

 

06/16/2015   0100         2000                    2500

 

Comment: Delta Requirements

 

Issued by: Randi Field

 

 

--

Jessica Andrieux

Natural Resource Specialist

Bureau of Reclamation, CCAO

7794 Folsom Dam Road

Folsom, CA 95630

916-989-7192

jandrieux@usbr.gov

 

[Rich_T]

Lake Natoma was looking especially full the other morning, so my wife turned to me and said "they must have released a bunch of water again during the night".

[2 Aces]

This just gets more bizarre by the day. With no good news on the horizon, I wonder if people will begin hoarding water one way or another. Or maybe people have already started doing that. Or is that just crazy talk?

[4thgenFolsomite]

I don't think its possible to hoard water.  I store my heat-up and shower bucket water big plastic jugs, but I use those for flushing toilets.  I don't think its possible to store enough water to make a dent in how much people use in their homes.  I am, however, getting a 650-gallon tank to store rainwater next spring that I can use to try to keep my fruit trees alive next summer. 

[ducky]

I don't think its possible to hoard water.  I store my heat-up and shower bucket water big plastic jugs, but I use those for flushing toilets.  I don't think its possible to store enough water to make a dent in how much people use in their homes.  I am, however, getting a 650-gallon tank to store rainwater next spring that I can use to try to keep my fruit trees alive next summer. 

 

If you don't mind me asking, are you getting the tank locally?

 

I think we are going to see substantial tree loss in the city and state with the water restrictions.   There are a lot of trees that are dead or being cut down in my neighborhood.  I noticed quite a few dead trees along Oak Avenue Parkway between Iron Point & East Bidwell St. the other day.

[Sandman]

Recent stories on the news about people stealing water (sounds weird I know...)from the back of strip malls.  Bust open the locked water valves, install a spigot, and are filling large tanks and hauling them off.  Business owners becoming aware only after their monthly water bill arrives

 

I guess we really wont start hearing people complaining about the dam water release situation until their spigots start running dry.  By then it is too late however.

 

My dad is on a deep well on the west side of Roseville and my 5th wheel holds 150gal so I'm not to concerned at this point.

 

Things will definitely get interesting in a few months.

[4thgenFolsomite]

No, I couldn't find the kind of tank I wanted locally.  Home Depot had some 1,250 gallon black tanks that are just too big for my sideyard.  I am purchasing mine online and paying the delivery fee.  I think I have enough room for two.  If these work out, I may install two more on the other side of the house near a downspout. 

[ducky]

No, I couldn't find the kind of tank I wanted locally.  Home Depot had some 1,250 gallon black tanks that are just too big for my sideyard.  I am purchasing mine online and paying the delivery fee.  I think I have enough room for two.  If these work out, I may install two more on the other side of the house near a downspout. 

 

I saw that one at Home Depot.  Too big.  I was hoping to avoid a delivery charge.  The closest I could find was Loomis Tank in Jackson.

[4thgenFolsomite]

Loomis Tank is close.  There is also an irrigation company in Auburn.  I'll look for the name if you want.  They sell the tanks too.

[ducky]

Loomis Tank is close.  There is also an irrigation company in Auburn.  I'll look for the name if you want.  They sell the tanks too.

 

Thanks. I'll trying Googling "rainwater harvesting" and Auburn and see if I can come up with it.

[2 Aces]

I am, however, getting a 650-gallon tank to store rainwater

Then comes the tricky part....GETTING RAIN !! But I think I heard they are predicting the El Nino from Hell this coming winter/spring. That would be nice.

[4thgenFolsomite]

I'm pretty sure its on Bowman

even if it rains like all get out, I don't think we will get snowpack.  We may be able to fill all of our reservoirs to capacity, but its the snowpack that gradually melts and we live on.  I think winter rain, limited snowpack...that is the new normal.

[tony]

Lake Natoma was looking especially full the other morning, so my wife turned to me and said "they must have released a bunch of water again during the night".

That's odd, because it is typically low in the morning and high in the evening as they release water from Folsom Lake during the day for power generation and use Lake Natoma to catch the bigger afternoon releases from Folsom and even out the flows downstream of Nimbus. 

[ducky]

According to the hourly levels the lake was at 417.03 feet at 8:00 a.m. and was down to 416.84 feet at 6:00 p.m.

[Rich_T]

That's odd, because it is typically low in the morning and high in the evening as they release water from Folsom Lake during the day for power generation and use Lake Natoma to catch the bigger afternoon releases from Folsom and even out the flows downstream of Nimbus. 

 

I don't know how it actually works, but it's been "fun" (in my otherwise boring life) to speculate on the "secret" water releases done during the wee hours under the cloak of darkness.